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Are you thinking of teaching your university subject in English but it is not the language you normally use? Then English for Teaching Purposes is the course for you.
English course and teaching methodology that aims to help university professors to teach in English, in line with university internationalization policies.
The course structure is the same for all students and there are opportunities for students to connect with colleagues from universities around the world who share the same discipline and discourse community, to ask questions and exchange ideas.
This MOOC is aimed at teachers who want to start using English in their teaching.
A priori, this means university professors from countries where English is not the L1 or a widely used language (Romance-speaking countries, for example), although in fact the course is open to professors of all educational stages who want to teach through of English, following the principles of EMI (English Medium Instruction).
Upon completion of the course, you should be able to do the following.
a) Teach a university subject in English, having acquired the necessary confidence and skills.
b) Integrate all aspects of CLIL (methodological, pedagogical, strategic, attitudinal, motivational, linguistic, sociolinguistic and pragmatic) to put together your own Middle English course on your particular topic.
c) Describe the characteristics of the discursive genre of the university chair (planning, agents, channels, phases, dynamics and current flexibility of the genre).
d) Understand and carry out the basic linguistic macro-functions within the English teaching discourse.
e) Understand and carry out, using the appropriate linguistic exponents (vocabulary, structures and phraseology), the main micro-functions in the discourse of English teaching: metalinguistic, informative, evaluative, inductive and social.
f) Consolidate their oral expression and interaction skills, as well as their grammar and vocabulary, at English levels C1 and C2 defined by the Council of Europe.
English for Teaching Purposes is a course taught by the Language Service of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).
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